Avery Normal Institute
Organization
Found in 3 Collections and/or Records:
Julia Alston Gourdine papers
Collection
Identifier: AMN 1130
Abstract
Julia Waites Alston Gourdine (1923-2009), an African-American elementary school educator who worked in the Charleston County School District for thirty-five years. Alston Gourdine was also an integral Senior Trustee Board member of Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal (A.M.E.) Church in Charleston, South Carolina. She married Robert H. Gourdine, Jr. in 1944, and they had one son, Robert H. Gourdine, III.The collection contains documents and photographs relating to Gourdine's...
Dates:
1880-2002; Majority of material found within 1950-1996
Holloway family scrapbook
Collection
Identifier: AMN 1065
Abstract
James Harrison Holloway, compiler of the family scrapbook, collected materials in the early twentieth century to preserve a record of his family’s legacy as free prominent African Americans in Charleston, South Carolina, from their arrival in the late eighteenth century. In the wake of Reconstruction and the dawn of Jim Crow, Holloway, whose vocations ranged between preacher, postmaster, and harness maker, sought to assert his family's legacy against the economic, social, and political...
Dates:
1776-1977, undated
Lucille Simmons Whipper papers
Collection
Identifier: AMN 1146
Abstract
Lucille Simmons Whipper (1928-2021), an educator, guidance counselor, academic administrator, community, and religious leader and the first African-American woman to serve as an State of South Carolina House of Representatives in Charleston's District 109 (1986-1996). She exercised her activism with her graduating class at Avery Institute in their attempts to desegregate the College of Charleston in 1944. Decades later, Whipper was instrumental in working with the State of South Carolina and...
Dates:
1900-2016, undated
Filtered By
- Subject: African Americans -- South Carolina -- Charleston -- Religion X
Additional filters:
- Subject
- African American women -- South Carolina -- Societies and clubs -- History 2
- Adolescence 1
- Affirmative Action programs 1
- African American History Month 1
- African American business enterprises 1
- African American churches 1
- African American churches -- South Carolina -- Charleston 1
- African American elementary schools -- South Carolina -- Charleston 1
- African American men 1
- African American slaveholders 1
- African American universities and colleges 1
- African American women teachers -- South Carolina -- Charleston 1
- African American youth 1
- African Americans -- Periodicals 1
- African Americans -- Politics and government -- 20th century 1
- African Americans -- Societies, etc. -- History 1
- African Americans -- South Carolina 1
- African Americans -- South Carolina -- Charleston 1
- African Americans -- South Carolina -- Charleston -- History 1
- African Americans -- South Carolina -- Charleston -- History -- 19th century 1
- African Americans -- South Carolina -- Charleston -- Social life and customs 1
- African Americans -- South Carolina -- Charleston -- Societies, etc. 1
- Associations, institutions, etc. -- African American membership 1
- Boards of directors 1
- Cemeteries -- South Carolina -- Charleston -- History 1
- Charleston (S.C.) -- History 1
- Charleston (S.C.) -- Race relations 1
- Charleston County (S.C.) 1
- Charleston Neck (S.C.) 1
- Child care 1
- Children 1
- Church buildings 1
- Church music 1
- Enslaved persons -- South Carolina -- Charleston 1
- Free African Americans -- South Carolina -- Charleston -- Social conditions 1
- Free Black people 1
- Paper money -- Confederate States of America 1
- Racially mixed people -- South Carolina -- Charleston -- Social conditions -- 19th century 1
- Real property -- South Carolina -- Charleston 1
- Slave records -- South Carolina -- Charleston 1
- Southern States -- Race relations 1
- Taxation -- South Carolina -- Charleston 1
- Wills -- South Carolina -- Charleston 1
- audiotapes 1
- awards 1
- booklets 1
- brochures 1
- bylaws (administrative records) 1
- certificates 1 + ∧ less
∨ more